Evoluzione del Game Design: La teoria dei 7 peccati capitali | Gamification.it

Evoluzione del Game Design: La teoria dei 7 peccati capitali | Gamification.it.

Il lead designer di Settlers Online, Teut Weidemann, afferma che il passo iniziale per uno sviluppatore è identificare ciò che rende divertente una meccanica capace di attrarre utenza. Allo stesso tempo, è necessario considerare la forza remunerativa della meccanica, in quanto la monetizzazione è diventata parte integrante e cruciale del game design.
La tecnica adottata da Weidemann è interessante e non bada di certo al cinismo, poiché si fonda sull’esplorazione, anzi, sulla monetizzazione delle debolezze umane, liberamente rinominate come i “sette peccati capitali” – dicitura questa che di certo non ha fatto mancare polemiche all’interno della comunità degli sviluppatori. Tuttavia, a nostro avviso, rimane una logica corretta.

Ecco i “sette peccati capitali”:

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Game-Design Evolution – Introduction

This will be the first of a series of posts about the new objectives of game designers.
Today, in fact, social-game designers have to consider revenue issues and business models since the beginning of their creative processes.


Games are one of the main reasons why people visit Facebook. In fact, it is estimated that about 40% of users are online to play social games. This means that more than two hundred million people enjoy playing on Facebook every month, and that the top ten titles on social network can boast over twelve million users each.

In the same way as the entertainment industry is rapidly moving toward online business models, for example cloud gaming, digital delivery and social gaming, so game designers need to adapt to this situation too. They have to develop their technical-cultural knowledge in order to link creativity with market laws, which have to be more and more aggressive and innovative; so, today, game designers have to find the perfect mix between fun factors and revenues.
This does not imply a leveling of gameplay in favor of monetizing for its own sake: in fact, gameplay is gaining importance even more than before, because of the fierce competition and the staggering growth of the sector. However, gameplay is increasingly focused on simplicity and on the emotional stimulus rather than on actions to do or on th aesthetic depth of the ludic architecture.Read More

Three social gaming trends for 2011 | Gamasutra: Joost Rietveld’s Blog

Social gaming, both expanding and diversifying the gamer population, has been maturing at rapid pace resulting in heavy consolidation, while at the same time leaving room for innovation. Drawing in part on 2010’s social gaming summit, consultancy activities in the social gaming sector and academic interests, in this article I look at three broad social gaming trends for 2011.

Trend 1. Mobile Social Gaming

’2011 will see the rise of mobile social games, both on Facebook as well as on other platforms such as iOS (Apple), Android Market and HTML5.’

Trend 2. Location Based Social Gaming

‘Backed by location based services, 2011 will see the rise of niche products in which cohesive communities will be served with innovative and meaningful products.’

Trend 3. Social Advergames

When properly executed, advergames are an extremely effective marketing tool. Disney acquired social game developer Playdom in July 2010 with the likely rationale of brand proliferation of Disney’s intellectual property rights through Playdom’s games and reach. McDonalds was one of the first and most visible to actually engage in social advergaming by taking over Farmville for a day in the form of a gigantic in game dynamic advertisement. Whereas Frima has attempted to iterate on the success of Farmville in favor of Mazda by developing Mazda’s DriverVille.
‘As companies have become aware of the strength of social media in 2010, 2011 will see the rise of holistic social advergames.’

Read More: Gamasutra: Joost Rietveld’s Blog – Three social gaming trends for 2011.

Game-mechanics and game-dynamics of the gamification process

The process of gamification is based on the integration of typical game components into websites, online communities, content portals or business services and, in general, others non-gaming contexts.
But what kind of techniques is needed to obtain the desired results?
There are two different aspects to be considered during the gamification process: they are called game-mechanics and game-dynamics; the former are the tools needed to create the gamification infrastructure that lies under any game, the latter represent the human needs and desires that are inherently in everyone of us and can be satisfied taking advantage of game-mechanics.

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Meccaniche e dinamiche della gamification

Il processo di gamification si basa sull’integrazione di elementi tipici del mondo dei giochi all’interno di siti web, portali, comunità online, servizi e, in generale, altri contesti non prettamente relativi al gaming.
Che genere di tecniche sono necessarie per ottenere i risultati desiderati?
Ci sono due aspetti differenti da tenere in considerazione: rispondono al nome di meccaniche e dinamiche di gioco; le prime sono a tutti gli effetti i ferri del mestiere utilizzati per creare l’infrastruttura ludica mentre le seconde rappresentano i bisogni e i desideri umani radicati in ognuno e che possono venir soddisfatti sfruttando le meccaniche di gioco.

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Gamification e obiettivi principali

La gamification ha due obiettivi decisamente interessanti che andremo ad esplorare in dettaglio in questo post.
Il primo è “stimolare un comportamento attivo e misurabile”. L’implementazione di meccaniche ludiche è uno dei metodi più efficienti per coinvolgere le persone nelle attività di un sito e di un servizio, ma anche (come vedremo in prossimi articoli) per agevolare comportamenti offline. E’, dunque, una tipologia di partecipazione particolare in quanto attiva: l’utente fa qualcosa!
E’ ovvio che un contributo attivo è più efficiente rispetto a quello passivo, anche da un punto di vista di mera veicolazione di un messaggio: incentivando comportamenti attivi, infatti, il messaggio da comunicare può divenire connesso all’azione stessa ed essere racchiuso nel contesto dell’esperienza.
Da questo punto di vista, non è poi da sottovalutare un altro vantaggio fondamentale ottenibile tramite la gamification: il comportamento dell’utenza è misurabile, raccogliendo i dati basati sulle azioni compiute all’interno del gioco. E’ perciò possibile effettuare una profilazione degli iscritti, permettendo di concentrarsi particolarmente sul target e/o cercando di espandere il potenziale bacino d’utenza.

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Gamify your business – main goals

Gamification has a couple of very interesting objectives that we are going to explain in details in this post.
The first one is “to encourage an active and measurable behavior”. The implementation of gaming mechanics is one of the most efficient way to involve people in activities on the site or service. It’s a really special participation because it’s an active one: the user does something!
It’s obvious that an active contribution is more efficient than a passive one because the communication message is connected to the action itself and is melted in the context of the experience.
In this kind of environment lies another fundamental advantage: the behavior of the audience is measurable, gathering data based on actions that users do inside the game. In this way, it’s possible to profile the audience, focusing better on the target user or expanding the target audience.

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Introduzione alla Gamification

Gamification è un termine che sta guadagnando sempre più popolarità.
È in parte composto dalla parola Game, che significa gioco, spesso associata al semplice divertimento senza scopi particolari. Ma la gamification non è solo questo: traendo vantaggio dall’interattività, sta diventando un mezzo molto potente ed efficace per veicolare messaggi di qualsiasi tipo e raggiungere gli obiettivi di impresa.
Tra questi si possono considerare il miglioramento della gestione dei clienti, il consolidamento della fedeltà ad un brand e la massimizzazione del rendimento di dipendenti e partner.

E’ ad evidenza un punto di vista decisamente differente rispetto a quello del mercato tradizionale del gaming.

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An introduction to Gamification

Gamification is a meta word that is gaining popularity day after day.
The first part of it is made by game, a term often associated to fun and amusement without any particular purpose.
There’s more: gaming is not only that but taking advantage of interaction is becoming a powerful means to convey messages of every kind.
Among them you can consider the improvement of customer management, build loyalty and maximize the performance of employees and partners.

It’s a really different point of view that shift the focus away from the traditional gaming market, based on the production of titles that have a great appeal on young males, and that can reach different demographic categories.

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